Yeah, I know.  The implication was clear.  It is funny how defensive the other side of the pillow fight got.  They have to dream up something to try and win the tug-of-war over the market for watered down piss.

Did Bud claim corn syrup is unhealthy? If you mean alcohol, then lots of recent medical and health stories make that claim.

This is America where child abuse through withholding vaccinations for those too young to choose is perfectly fine. Woohoo!

Any pilots who can comment on how the 2nd crew who flew the next day and crashed weren’t warned by the 1st crew who narrowly avoided disaster, or by whoever the 1st crew would/should have told about the “anomaly”? Is this as monumental a screwup as it seems, or is there some rational explanation that let’s Lion folks…

I have no problem with sane people calling Trump out on his insanity. Baiting him is an effective way of continuing to force him to reveal his weakness. I don’t think Mr. Conway has stooped to Trump’s level and I don’t think he’s lost in the exchange, but Trump certainly has. School yard invectives thrown at adults do…

Big enough scandal, but pales in comparison to McConnell refusing to even consider Obama’s nomination for the court.

You have a very perverse view of “winning”, common, but perverse none the less. Anyone with the sensibility, perspective and judgement above that of a 10 yr old sees Trump simply revealing what an infantile, mentally and emotionally challenged, fool he is.  In an adult that’s the opposite of winning. In a President…

I believe it will happen.  Bush and Trump are more than sufficient evidence that the current system doesn’t work as well as we need it to, and a lot of folks are motivated to change it.  It may take gerrymandering reform to make it happen but that’s being worked on as well.  Things are trending positive.

It’s not an amendment you ignoramus. It’s bills being passed in each state. No change to the Constitution required. 12 have already passed it, and DC. That’s 181 EC votes. Once enough states pass the law to total 270 EC votes the die is cast.

FU. Enough States are going to pass the EC law so that a majority of voters will determine who’s President. Gerrymandering will be improved so State legislatures and the House will be more closely democratic. We can add seats to the Supreme Court to allow it to better reflect the will of the people. You want the…

Ah, the mask comes off. Yes, I know you’d prefer to have the minority dominate the majority. What’s that called? Fascism? Some dystopian dream where your preferred elite, arrogant overlords decide what’s best for everyone. We are not a perfect democracy, but that’s the weakest possible argument for trying to make us…

It may shock you but I don’t give a crap about states. I care about people. The entire states rights argument has always been a ruse to disguise some real agenda, which has often been racist. That line “but, but we’re a democratic republic” is just so much bullshit. You do reveal in other posts that your worry is…

Yeah, it’s not perfect.  But if gerrymandering can get fixed then state governments can also reflect the will of the majority, which is the goal.

Exactly. And it only requires enough states to agree that total 270 EC votes in order to work. Candidates would need to campaign to all voters because each would count equally. And no Constitutional amendment or Congressional approval required.

Your presumption about Congress being required to change the EC is not true. There’s already a strong movement underway at the State level to change it, and it can succeed.

Presidents can’t change it directly, but their election is determined by it, so raising it as a serious issue seems perfectly appropriate to me, and more than welcome.

In Japan restaurants often have pictures or plastic models of dishes displayed out front. I’d take a picture with my phone of what I wanted and show it to the waitress. Always got a nod and a smile.

The very worst aspect of the Trump fiasco is what it says about a society that continues to allow someone so deranged to manipulate the levers of power from our highest office.  

Is anyone else comforted by the fact that the US President is so organized and efficient in the use of his time that he can get all the work of running the country accomplished and still play golf 20% of his days, spend 60% in unstructured “executive time”, and still be able to pitch in running Fox, GM and SNL? Me…

Been reported the pilots weren’t informed there was an automated system to override.